Toolkits
Your help in reaching people across BSW is really appreciated. The toolkits below contain assets that have been created specifically for the BSW population. Toolkits for other campaigns and additional assets can also be found on the websites of the Department of Health & Social Care and the UKHSA.
If you have difficulties accessing the toolkits, or have assets that you would like to share please email bswicb.communications@nhs.net.
Please check back regularly for further updates.
Current campaign areas
Please click on the links below to explore the toolkits available to support our current campaign areas.
Stay Well
Trowbridge Integrated Care Centre is opening on 30 April.
This centre is at the very heart of the community and will bring real benefits to residents, with services available to support them at every stage of their lives.
Help us spread the word to our communities by downloading and sharing the assets in the toolkit.
In our vision, Neighbourhood Health is how health, care and wider support work together around people and communities, close to where they live.
As we work towards our vision, we need to know what our communities think about our plans and capture ideas, suggestions and feedback to inform decisions about neighbourhood health.
Please download and share the resources in the toolkit and help us get this valuable feedback.
BSW ICB is currently reviewing the Long COVID service. We are running public engagement on a proposal for the future of the service and we are asking local people to share their views.
Help us spread the word so we can continue to provide appropriate support to people with Long COVID while responsibly using NHS resources across BSW.
Please download and share the resources in the toolkit and help us get this valuable feedback.
Local health services and health advice.
Download assets about:
- Winter Illnesses
- Right Service - Right Time
- Norovirus
- NHS 111
Across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW), a number of different services are available to support people living with obesity.
We need to review current services to ensure they meet the needs of patients and reflect recent developments in treatments. To help us do this, we would really value feedback from the community.
Please download and share the resources in the toolkit and help us get this valuable feedback.
High blood pressure affects around 1 in 3 UK adults with no clear symptoms. It often goes undetected, increasing the risk of heart attack or stroke.
Help us spread the word about our drop-in sessions for blood pressure checks, chats about health and wellbeing and support to understand home blood pressure monitoring.
Download the assets and share the message.
Vaccinations
Meningitis Toolkit
Download assets.
This campaign has useful links and downloadable social media assets.
Measles Toolkit
Download assets.
This campaign has useful links and downloadable social media assets.
Flu? Not on my watch.
Share our videos to encourage health and social care workers to get the flu vaccine.
With the message to protect the people you care for and to avoid making life harder for yourself by getting sick, these short reels encourage HSCW to get the best protection against flu and prevent themselves from becoming seriously ill.
Click the link to watch and request the videos.
Jab Done
Share this campaign and encourage the community to top up their protection against flu this winter by getting vaccination if they are eligible.
The flu vaccine helps protect against flu, which can be a serious or life-threatening illness. It's offered on the NHS every autumn or early winter to those at higher risk of getting seriously ill from flu.
Stay Strong. Get Vaccinated.
Health and social care workers who are eligible for the flu vaccination because they are immunosuppressed will continue to be offered the vaccine.
This campaign supports organisations in boosting staff flu vaccination — helping to protect both healthcare workers and patients this winter.
HPV Campaign
Nearly all cases of cervical cancer can be prevented. To eliminate cervical cancer by 2040 we must ensure as many people as possible are vaccinated against HPV and come forward for screening once eligible.
Download the HPV Campaign pack and share social media assets and copy.
Children and Young People
Healthier Together
Parents and carers across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire can access an online health resource to help manage childhood illness.
The Healthier Together website and App offers trusted healthcare advice for families and is designed to support decision-making when children are unwell.
Download the assets and help us encourage parents to download the App, giving them trusted health information at their fingertips.
Back to School 2025
Share our useful 'Back to School' family planner, which signposts where to go for everything from self-care to minor illnesses and injuries.
It also has space for parents to jot down important contact details for their GP practice and nearest services for urgent and emergency care.
Ideal for fridge doors and family noticeboards, it is intended to be the go-to cheat-sheet that will help mums and dads know exactly where to go when their little one is ill or injured.
Back to University 2025
We are reminding students to ensure they are up to date with vaccinations ahead of the start of the new academic year.
Students should get up to date with 3 vaccines: Men ACWY (meningitis), MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) and HPV before the start of the new term.
Summer Holidays 2025 - Managing Childhood Illnesses
Over the summer holidays we’re encouraging parents to take simple steps to help keep their children healthy and if they do become poorly, to get the right care without unnecessary trips to A&E. Many common childhood illnesses can be effectively and more quickly managed at home or through local NHS services such as community pharmacies.
Archived Campaigns
Admissions avoidance
Managing childhood illness
A range of content to support parents and carers to look after their children when they are poorly. There is information on how to mitigate illness, spotting the signs, self-care options and guidance on what to do when you are worried.
Falls prevention
Supporting system flow and pressure
Discharge
This toolkit supports the Caring Steps Together programme that provides a range of assets to help healthcare professionals, patients and families understand the discharge process from hospital and what options may be available to them.
Appropriate service use
Max Investigates - service use videos
A light-hearted series of films, with an important message. Follow 6-year old Max has he investigates the range of health care options available in the BSW area - "asking the difficult questions so you don't have to".
Max Investigates toolkit (docx, 2.17MB)
Max Investigates Screensaver (zip, 1.25MB)
Did Not Attends (Primary Care)
Assets for use within Primary Care settings to encourage appointment attendance.
Self care
Antibiotic awareness
A series of assets to provide content to inform people about the correct use of antibiotics and the risks associated with poor use.
Mental self care
Winter flu symptoms
Assets to explain the difference between a cold and flu and how to self-manage.
Primary Care
Smear test barriers
Graphics and messages to help tackle the barriers to attending smear test appointments.
Easter prescriptions
Assets to help nudge people to order their prescriptions in plenty of time before the bank holiday.
Did Not Attends
Assets for use within Primary Care settings to encourage appointment attendance.
Risk stratification
Communications toolkit for GP Practices to use to explain the role of risk stratification to patients and the public.
Community pharmacy
Pharmacy First
Posters, social media graphics and digital screens to promote the seven conditions that pharmacies can now support without the need for a prescription from a GP. More assets from NHSE coming soon!
Other campaigns
Hello Baby
A series of antenatal education films and assets for women, birthing partners and their families.
Cost of living support
Find more information on the Cost of Living Support page. Assets to support specific localities are provided below.
BaNES cost of living assets (zip, 1.02MB)
Swindon cost of living assets (zip, 1.22MB)
Strep A and children's health
Materials to support parents and carers so they understand the risks associated with Strep A and what to do if they are worried.
Children's health and Strep A Toolkit (docx, 3.43MB)
Strep A YouTube video with Emma Watson, Senior Sister in GWH ED
(Videos are also available to download - please email bswicb.digitalcommunications@nhs.net)
Current campaigns